What is the meaning of Raffzahn in German?

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German Dictionary Word Meaning of Raffzahn

1.1 crooked upper incisor jutting out under the upper lip
2.1 greedy bastard, puttock (a person who is grabby, greedy, grasping, rapacious)
3.1 glutton, greedyguts, greedy pig (one who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess)

Part of Speech - German Dictionary word Raffzahn

Raffzahn is a Noun. A word that represents a person, place, thing, or idea

German Dictionary Synonyms of Raffzahn

Raffke

German Dictionary Examples of Usage of Raffzahn

1.1 Translation: 1940, Thomas Mann: Joseph in Egypt. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 617: Denn Tabubu, ſchwarz-nackt bis zum Gürtel, um den Kopf graue Zotteln, in welchen der Wind wühlte, gegürtet unter den Vettelbrüſten mit einem Ziegenfell (und ſo angetan war auch ihre junge Gehilfin), ſprach alles aus, was da war, mit beweglichem Klatſchmunde, worin zwei Raffzähne einſam ſtanden, und führte es marktſchreieriſch an nach Namen und Nutzung.
In English: She stood there black and naked to the waist, her head a grey mass of tangled hair dishevelled by the wind; girdled with a goatskin under her haglike breasts, as was her young helper likewise; her loose mouth, in which two buck-teeth stood up, moved ceaselessly as she shouted the name and use of each object, like a market-woman crying her wares.,2.1 »Ja«, sagte Piatkowski, zweihundertfünfzig wäre ganz ordentlich, mehr wolle er gar nicht verlangen, er sei ja kein Raffzahn und hier müsse gehörig investiert werden, zweihundertfünfzig Ost, das gehe in Ordnung, nur immer im voraus, immer am Ersten.
In English: “Yes,” said Piatkowski, two hundred and fifty would be perfectly neat, he didn’t want to ask for more, he wasn’t a greedy bastard and here you have to invest a lot [additionally for this apartment], two hundred and fifty East [German marks], that’s fine, just always in advance, always on the first [of a month].,3.1 Man nannte ihn kurz und bündig »Raffzahn«, weil er anderen ständig die Stullen und die Schokolade wegaß.
In English: He was succinctly called “greedy pig” because he constantly ate up other people’s sandwiches and chocolate.

German Dictionary Word Forms of Raffzahn

1. Raffzahnes (genitive)
2. Raffzahns (genitive)
3. Raffzähne (plural)
4. strong (table-tags)
5. de-ndecl (inflection-template)
6. Raffzahn (nominative,singular)
7. Raffzähne (definite,nominative,plural)
8. Raffzahnes (genitive,singular)
9. Raffzahns (genitive,singular)
10. Raffzähne (definite,genitive,plural)
11. Raffzahn (dative,singular)
12. Raffzahne (dative,singular)
13. Raffzähnen (dative,definite,plural)
14. Raffzahn (accusative,singular)
15. Raffzähne (accusative,definite,plural)

History of Raffzahn

raffen (“to grab, grasp, snatch up”) + Zahn (“tooth”). The word, in its first sense, is an inherited word whose oldest attested form so far is Late Middle High German reffzan “incisor” that originally might have applied the probable sense “carnassial, fang; tusk”. The extension to human teeth developed probably by comparison for instance with a tusk. From 1800 onwards the word then also applied the second and third sense which semantically overlapped with the sense “snatch up” of the German verb raffen.

German Dictionary Prnounciation of Raffzahn

[ˈʁafˌt͡saːn]